Waclaw Kusnierczyk schrieb:
> I am inclined to
> follow Robert M. Pirsig, author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle
> Maintenance, when he said, ‘When one person suffers from a
> delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from
> a delusion it is called Religion.’"
>
> Perhaps it would be interesting to argue, chaining to previous
> discussions, that if *all* people suffer from a delusion, it is called
> 'science'.
> (01)
When scientists in the humanities, the social sciences, and the
information sciences suffer from the delusion that it is impossible to
make a distinction between delusion and reality, it it is called 'social
constructivism'. (02)
best,
Ingvar J (03)
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Ingvar Johansson
IFOMIS, Saarland University
home site: http://ifomis.org/
personal home site:
http://hem.passagen.se/ijohansson/index.html (04)
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